Their Royal Highnesses Princess Lalla Meryem, Princess Lalla Asmae and Princess Lalla Hasnaa, sister of His Majesty Mohammed VI of Morocco, were received for lunch on Monday at the Elysée Palace, at the invitation of Mrs. Brigitte Macron. After several mounth of deep diplomatic crisis, Morocco and France has shown many signs of rapprochment.
Accordind to an official press release, This luncheon is in keeping with the long-standing friendly relations between the Kingdom of Morocco and the French Republic. This reception was perceived in Morocco as a new sign of rapprochment between Morocco and France after several mounths of deap diplomatic crisis.
Currently, Paris want to build new ties with Morocco in order to open a new area. The french minister of forien Affairs, Stephane Séjourné, said that he was charged by president Emmanuel Macron to open a new page in the relations between the two countries.
French diplomacy has taken a new step towards the Kingdom by suggesting that France could change its position on the Sahara question. “It would be totally illusory, disrespectful and stupid to consider that we are going to build what I hope we will manage to build, brick by brick, for the happiness of our two nations and a few other neighbors, without clarifying this issue, which everyone in Paris knows and recognizes as essential for the Kingdom, yesterday, today and tomorrow,” stressed Lecourtier in response to a question on France’s position on the Sahara issue.
“How can we claim to have these ambitions without taking into account the Kingdom’s major concerns on the issue?” said Lecourtier.
“France is aware of the importance of this issue for Morocco. It is aware of how the world is evolving,” he added, noting that “in the dialogue we have with Morocco, this question, as it has been since 2007, will be raised with a view to pursuing intimacy and partnership in the years and decades to come.”
The French ambassador was hosting a conference-debate on Franco-Moroccan relations at the Ain Chock Faculty of Legal, Economic and Social Sciences.
The conference was organized by the Links Foundation, chaired by former minister and Moroccan ambassador to France Mohamed Berrada.